Two-sided platforms rely on their recommendation algorithms to help visitors successfully find a match. However, on … platforms such as VolunteerMatch - which has facilitated millions of connections between volunteers and nonprofits - a sizable … platform's recommendation algorithm. We study how such platforms should account for this external traffic in the design of …

quantifies that dominate internet platforms can create three major harms to consumers: - Increasing prices to consumers via added …The internet giants - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, among others - have transformed society with both positive … internet giants are multisided markets (MSM); their economic rents are "hidden" from the public. On the user-side of the market …

Platforms often use fee discrimination within their marketplace (e.g., Amazon, eBay, and Uber specify a variety of …

Despite claims that electronic commerce lowers search costs dramatically, and therefore makes it easy for consumers to …